Craig Murray has graciously has accepted my proposal of a public debate – venue and format to be agreed. He also rightly has pointed out that I never finished reviewing his book Murder in Samarkand including the key passages about his head-on collision with the FCO over torture and the War on […]
I dimly recall one of my interviews at the Civil Service Selection Board back in 1979. The issue of Geography and Determinism came up and I recall making a couple of brilliant insights as to how far (and when) the way people behave is shaped by where and how they […]
Contrarian Brian Barder tries to put in a good word for MPs. A dirty job but someone has to do it. I agree with most of it, especially the first part where he agrees with me. But at the end comes this: … these are the people on whom we […]
The Fraud Act 2006 contains a number of excellent provisions which help us in the current case: (a) section 2 (fraud by false representation) (b) section 3 (fraud by failing to disclose information), and (c) section 4 (fraud by abuse of position) The abuse of expenses by sundry Cabinet Ministers […]
Craig Murray has married his partner Nadira . My warm congratulations (and I mean it). Once the honeymoon is over, I invite Craig to think about setting up that debate at long last on Diplomacy and Ethics or something along those lines? One venue has already been kindly offered. But a debate on […]
Over at anticant’s arena I find an awesome sentence with both my name and that of Camille Paglia in it which just transcends all understanding, or at least mine: “It is this animal craving for something simple and, I daresay, edenic that undergirds our hyperaestheticised pornography in /all/ of its post-modern dimensions. One need […]
Anticant in a comment picks up my previous posting about the dilemmas facing a civil servant when s/he suspects (or ought to suspect?) that the people at the top are pursuing a seriously flawed or even morally wrong: Of course it is impossible for honest people to function comfortably within a […]
Iain Dale links to this piece drawing attention to a draft law in the USA which (it is said) poses a major threat to blogs and the social web. The draft law says: Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, harass, or […]
BBRU 220 is hosted by the furious Mr Eugenides. See the clarion call for nicer treatment of Fat People. And some lies about smoking. Please send any suggestions for links to British bloggers for the next round-up to britblog@gmail.com
An Independent reader opines with eloquence on my work as HM Ambassador in Warsaw as described here: It all seems reasonably clear. Charles Crawford is a gutless little tosser who clearly knew that Poland was being used for the illegal torture and interrogation of prisoners – but he did nothing about it. And now […]
